Ebook: Governing Security: The Hidden Origins Of American Security Agencies
Author: Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
- Genre: Other Social Sciences // Politics
- Tags: United States. Federal Security Agency, United States. Dept. Of Homeland Security, National Security: United States, Internal Security: United States
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- City: Stanford
- Language: English
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Governing Security investigates the surprising history of two major federal agencies that touch the lives of Americans every day: the Roosevelt-era Federal Security Agency––which eventually became today's Department of Health and Human Services––and the more recently created Department of Homeland Security. By describing the legal, political, and institutional history of both organizations, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar offers a compelling account of crucial developments affecting the basic architecture of our nation. He shows how Americans end up choosing security goals not through an elaborate technical process, but in lively and overlapping settings involving conflict over statutory programs, agency autonomy, presidential power, and priorities for domestic and international risk regulation. Ultimately, as Cuéllar shows, ongoing fights about the scope of national security reshape the very structure of government and the intricate process through which statutes and regulations are implemented, particularly during––or in anticipation of––a national crisis.
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